THE STONECHAT. 45 



Mr. Hardy, in his interesting papers on the local migra- 

 tion of birds/ mentions Penmanshiel Moor, Cockburnspath 

 Cove, the heights above Eedheugh, Pipertou Hill or Earns- 

 law, Oldcambus Dean, Dowlaw Dean, and Ewieside,^ as 

 some of the usual haunts and breeding- places of the Stone- 

 chat. Selby states, in a paper " On Birds observed in 

 the neighbourhood of Coldingham in April, and St. Abb's 

 Head in June, 1833,"^ that " upon the stony hills around 

 Coldingham Loch, the Whin- and Stonechats were observed 

 where whin or furze prevailed." It is still to be found 

 in the last-mentioned locality, and it also frequents the hills 

 around Abbey St. Bathans. Dr. Stuart records that it was 

 found in considerable numbers about Gordon Bog when 

 the Berwickshire Naturalist Club visited that place on the 

 30th of June 1879.'' 



I lately saw a beautiful specimen which had been 

 taken with bird-lime by the gardener at Abbey St. Bathans, 

 near the Lady's Pocket Wood there, in the end of April 

 1885. It is sometimes observed at Greenhope on Elleraford 

 Farm, and occasionally on Cockburn Law, 



The restless Stonechat all day long is heard. ^ 



The Rev. George Cook, Longformacus, informs me that it is 

 often seen near Whitchester. It is sometimes observed in 



1 See Hist. Ber. Nat. Cluh, vols, vii., viii., ix., and x. 



2 Ewieside is one of the heights of the Lammermuirs in the neighbourhood of 

 Oldcambus, and is mentioned by Walter Chisholm, a Berwickshire poet, in his 

 lines on " The Pease Glen " : — 



Down sank the red sun in his glory and splendour, 

 Afar in the bowers of the cloud-curtained west, 



And soft, floating purple light, mellow and tender, 

 Illumined wild Ewieside's heath-covered crest. 



Walter Chisholm was born at Easter Harelaw, near Chirnside, in 1856, spent his 

 boyhood at Redheugh, where his father was shepherd, and died at Dowlaw, near 

 Fast Castle, in the twenty- first year of his age. His poems have been published 

 in a little book edited by Mr. William Cairns, formerly of Oldcambus. 



3 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. i. p. 22. 

 * Ihid. vol. ix. p. 2o0. 



5 Wordsworth, Evening Walk. 



